IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mariposa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975-CA-55-023x
  • User Pedon ID: 75-CA-55-023x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975-CA-55-023x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7555023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42317
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.8135903
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2217432
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, NE/4
  • Map Unit: 8161—Nedsgulch-Sites complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37120-G2—Groveland, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WRA, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Haploxerults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mariposa
  • PSC - 15 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BANDARITA
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Haploxerults
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Calaveras Schist. Geologic For formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUKE

    Quercus kelloggii

    California black oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    58 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—58

    58—

    —15—

    —43—

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    28

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    1006

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    135

    838

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    11.7

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00898
    A1—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; 26 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00899
    A2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly silt loam; 29 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 16 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD00900
    BA—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly silt loam; 27 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 21 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00901
    Bt—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; 17 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 52 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent clay films on top faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00902
    Cr—58 centimeters (22.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD00903